Though Pope here controverts the traditional opinion, he found it to his purpose to accept it in the Epistle to Augustus, ll.
In fact, Alexander virtually controverts this locus in what he says a little farther down (Schol.
Footnote 79: Aristotle controverts this doctrine of Plato in a pointed manner, De Gen.
In an appendix to the first chapter, De Deo, Spinosa controverts what he calls the prejudice about final causes.
He elucidates the early practice of capturing a wife, and controverts Morgan’s Ancient Society.
Suffer that, through you, I demand of these, Who controverts my claim to Juliers?
This statement shows that the fort was in the town, and controverts the assertion of Butler (p.
However frequently and fully Aristotle controverts both of these, all his objections turn on the remark already quoted (Vol.
This chapter, on the Primary Qualities of Matter, controverts the opinion of Sir W.
Herein Mr Mill is opposed to him, and controverts his doctrine in an elaborate argument.
It is especially with regard to the spiritual consciousness of man, and of man's participation in the divine government of life, that the doctrine of Christ controverts the idea of suffering as an evil.
He turns to his Greek authority for the death of Antiochus, and controverts Polybius, who ascribes the king's distemper to his sacrilegious desire to plunder a temple of Diana in Persia.
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